Tag: history

New Workshop Report and Policy Brief: South-South Collaborations in Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement

In a new Workshop Report, our Principal Investigator Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh critically examines the potential for South–South collaboration in diplomatic and humanitarian responses to ongoing and emerging crises in the Middle East and beyond. The Report presents key insights arising throughout a closed policy workshop co-convened on 26 February 2025 by Professor Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Dr Ghassan... Continue Reading →

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Refugees’ Conceptualisations and Critiques of ‘the South’ and Southern Responses to Displacement: Research Note #1

Our Principal Investigator, Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, has published two new Research Notes drawing together key insights from the Southern Responses to Displacement project. Meanings of the South and Refugees’ Views of Southern Responses to Displacement: Research Note #1, available in English and in Arabic starts by exploring refugees’ and aid providers’ conceptualisations of 'the South'... Continue Reading →

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The importance of place and language – Syrian, Turkish and Syrian-Turkish encounters in Gaziantep

What influences encounters between refugees and members of their host communities, and how do these encounters change over time? In this post, Sara Al Helali (Southern Responses to Displacement researcher) draws on her interviews with Syrian refugees and local community members in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, and explores the historical, relational, social and economic processes... Continue Reading →

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The Ottoman Empire in Indian Literary Imagination: Charting Shibli Numani’s Journey into Turkey

How can historical manuscripts act as a 'corrective narrative' to dominant discourse from the 'global North’? This blog post by Sumaira Nawaz examines the role and influence of South-South relations on the Turkish element of the travelogue of Indian intellectual, literary critic, poet and educationist, Maulana Shibli Numani. Numani’s travelogue, Safarnama-e Rum-o Misr-o Sham, was... Continue Reading →

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Exploring refugees’ conceptualisations of Southern-led humanitarianism

How do refugees themselves experience and conceptualise Southern-led responses developed ‘on their behalf’? Building on her research in Lebanon, Cuba and Algeria vis-a-vis Palestinian and Sahrawi refugees’ participation in a Cuban scholarship programme established in the 1960s, this question has long been at the core of Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh’s work, and continues to be central... Continue Reading →

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